D.O.P. Pago de Otazu · OTAZU
Pago de Otazu
The highest expression of the Otazu vineyard: deep, balanced wines born from the grapes of our Pago.
Our wines come from a manual, selective harvest in the Otazu vineyard, certified under the Protected Designation of Origin Pago —the highest wine category in Spain—, reserved for unique terroirs that translate into wines of outstanding quality.
The labels pay homage to the sculptures <em>Guardián I</em> and <em>Guardián II</em> by Xavier Mascaró: evocative figures of guardian Buddhas, with textures that represent the perpetuity of time. Placed before the vineyard, they symbolise the protection of these lands and their precious fruits.
The Collection
Wines under D.O.P. Pago de Otazu
The artist
Xavier Mascaró
Paris, 1965
Sculptor of Spanish origin born in Paris in 1965, Xavier Mascaró works cast iron and bronze to shape a universe of figures evoking the passing of time: guardians, heads and boats. In 2007 he conceived a series of ten monumental Guardians in iron, whose textures inspire the Pago de Otazu labels.
His work has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London, the gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the IVAM in Valencia and the Museo del Templo Mayor in Mexico City, among others. He has developed his studios between New York, Madrid, London and Mexico.
The vineyard
Where they are born
The Pago de Otazu wines are born from a mosaic of plots spread across the vineyard —with names like Nietzsche, Homer, Borges, Seneca or Socrates—, planted on loamy and clayey soils that give each wine its character. The Chardonnay plots, fresh and luminous, give life to the whites; the Merlot ones, deeper and more structured, to the reds.
All share the same Atlantic microclimate, protected by mountains to the north: an ecosystem that cannot be reproduced, where soil, plant cover and forest edges collaborate in the balance of the place. From that sum is born the label that, with textures representing the perpetuity of time, guards each bottle as the Guardian guards the vineyard.
The project